Proverbs 21:1
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Brooks Channels Desires Direction Directs Hand Hands Heart Inclineth King's Pleases Pleaseth Pleasure Rivers Rivulets Stream Streams Turned Turneth Turns Water Watercourse Watercourses Waters Wherever Whithersoever Wishes
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Brooks Channels Desires Direction Directs Hand Hands Heart Inclineth King's Pleases Pleaseth Pleasure Rivers Rivulets Stream Streams Turned Turneth Turns Water Watercourse Watercourses Waters Wherever Whithersoever Wishes
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English Standard Version
The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.

New American Standard Bible
The king's heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes.

King James Bible
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A king's heart is like streams of water in the LORD's hand: He directs it wherever He chooses.

International Standard Version
A king's heart is a water stream that the LORD controls; he directs it wherever he pleases.

NET Bible
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The heart of the King is like a stream of waters in the hands of God, and he turns it wherever he chooses.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The king's heart is like streams of water. Both are under the LORD's control. He turns them in any direction he chooses.

King James 2000 Bible
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.

American King James Version
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.

American Standard Version
The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will he shall turn it.

Darby Bible Translation
The king's heart in the hand of Jehovah is as brooks of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

English Revised Version
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD as the watercourses: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Webster's Bible Translation
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

World English Bible
The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Young's Literal Translation
Rivulets of waters is the heart of a king in the hand of Jehovah, Wherever He pleaseth He inclineth it.
Lexicon
The king's
melek  (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
heart
leb  (labe)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect
is in the hand
yad  (yawd)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
of the LORD
Yhovah  (yeh-ho-vaw')
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God -- Jehovah, the Lord.
as the rivers
peleg  (peh'-leg)
a rill (i.e. small channel of water, as in irrigation) -- river, stream.
of water
mayim  (mah'-yim)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen -- + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring).
he turneth
natah  (naw-taw')
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
it whithersoever he will
chaphets  (khaw-fates')
to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
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